44; * XXIX. kutacej:. 



Small shrubs, with imbricate (rarely scattered), linear, oblong or round- 

 ish leaves. Flowers terminal, either solitary or few together, rarely in 

 many-tiowered heads. — 14: species, chiefly in the South-Eastern district. 



7. ADENANDRA, AVilld. 



Calyx 5-parted. Petals broadly obovate, with very short 

 claws, uude. Stamens 5, fertile, shorter than the calyx ; an- 

 thers oblong, erect, tipped with a stalked, spoon-shaped or 

 globose, at length reflexed gland ; staminodia also tipped with 

 a gland. Disk cup-like, 5-10-crenate. Ovary sunk in the 

 disk, 5-lobed; style short ; stigma capitate, 5-crenate. Cocci 

 obtuse or horned, glandularly-muricate above. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 

 384. 



Virgate or much-branched shrubs, with scattered, rarely opposite, 

 pellucid-dotted leaves, and terminal, sessile or pedicellate flowers, which 

 are larger and handsomer than in the allied genera. — 21 species, natives of 

 the Western and South-Eastern districts. 



8. BAROSMA, Willd. 



Calyx 5-cleft or parted. Petals much longer than the calyx, 

 oblong, subsessile. Stamens 5, fertile, longer than the petaloid 

 or filiform staminodia, which alternate with them ; anthers 

 ovoid, glandless or with a minute apical gland. Disk cup-like, 

 entire or lobed. Ovary 5-lobed ; style long, filiform ; stigma 

 simple. Cocci eared at apex, gland-dotted. — Fl. Cap. i. j9. 392. 



Small shrubs, with mostly opposite leaves, gland-serrated. Flowers on 

 axillary twigs, solitary or tufted ; very rarely sub umbellate and terminal. — 

 15 species, among which is B. crenulata, Hook., the true ^^ Bukti,^' though 

 others are indiscriminately collected for it, particularly B. serratifolia, W. 



9. AGATHOSMA, Willd. 



Calyx 5-parted, rather unequal. Petals longer than the 

 calyx, clawed. Stamens 5, fertile, alternating with as many 

 filiform or petaloid staminodia ; anthers subglobose. Disk 

 cu])-like, creuulate or lobed. Ovary 2-4-lobed; style long, 

 filiform ; stigma simple. Cocci mostly 3, horned. — Fl. Cap. i. 

 p. 399. 



A large genus of small shrubs, with alternate, rarely opposite leaves. 

 Flowers at the ends of the branches, capitate or umbellate; in one species 

 axillary. Petals white red or hlac-purple. — 100 (or more) species, dis- 

 persed. 



10. EMPLEURUM, Soland. 



Flow^ers monoecious. Calyx 4-cleft. Petals and disk 0. 

 Stamens 4 ; anthers large, 4-sided, the cells divergent and 

 prolonged beyond the sessile, apical gland. Ovary of 1, rarely 

 2 carpels ; style short ; stigma simple. Pruit lanceolate, 

 compressed, tapering upwards into a beak. — Fl. Cap. i.p.441. 



